Isaac Hammond Collection, 1839-1875

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Isaac Hammond. Collection, 1839-1875. Accession 24335. Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Creator:
Isaac Hammond
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Isaac Hammond. Collection, 1839-1875. Accession 24335. Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection, 1839-1875, of Isaac Hammond of New York, a Union soldier who was stationed for a time in Richmond, Virginia, and gathered various documents from the files of Governors John Letcher and William Smith, the Virginia General Assembly, the Confederate Congress, the files of Confederate Senators James M. Baker of Florida and R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia, and the Confederate adjutant-general's office. The material covers a wide range of subjects including the impressment of slaves for working on Confederate and local defenses, hospitals, the plights of women and children in Virginia during the Civil War, military defenses, supplies for various companies in the Confederate army, pay vouchers, military passes, military orders, and newspapers from Richmond, Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, and Augusta, Georgia.

Correspondents include John A. Campbell, Samuel P. Moore, Otho R. Singleton, Albert G. Brown, James M. Baker, Robert M. T. Hunter, Fitzhugh Lee, Samuel Cooper, James A. Seddon, H. L. Clay, Richard W. Walker, Robert Jemison, Jr., Robert Ranson, Jr., Braxton Bragg, Joseph Mayo, Joseph E. Johnston, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, George W. Munford, Jefferson Davis, Richard Stoddert Ewell, John Brown Gordon, James Lawson Kemper, Joseph R. Davis, Pierre G. T. Beauregard and William Hicks Jackson.

Biographical / historical:

Born about 1841, Isaac Hammond enlisted in Company F, 80th New York Infantry 17 December 1863. He, along with his regiment, was in Richmond in 1865. He gathered materials from the state and Confederate archives. Hammond took these items back to New York after his regiment was mustered out of the army 29 Janaury 1866 in Portsmouth, Virginia. After his death, the items were given to the Huguenot Historical Society in New Paltz, New York.

Acquisition information:
Gift of the Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York, 12 April 1955.
Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Physical location:
Personal Papers Collection, Acc. 24335
Physical description:
.45 cubic feet